The next step in this dance will be a story truly bringing home how committed Selig is to retiring. Maybe an interview that takes place in his sleepy retirement office on a college campus somewhere, where an at peace Bud Selig intends to teach history or something, showing you just how committed he is to walking away from the league.

Because his vendettas against non-problems like amateur bonuses and HGH are just so labor friendly, right?

heyblueyoustink - Mar 25, 2013 at 11:04 AM

Good point. I think Bud allows the owners to overpay for whatever players they want, keeps both parties generally happy, and is the reason why the Yankees will start opening day with 91 million dollars on the bench and it’s kind of a yawner.

Good thing. The LAST work stoppage was on his watch, and it resulted in the cancellation of the World Series. In that one, he let the owners play hardball, and in the litigation that followed, the union won every.single.time.

His value to the owners is to remind them of that debacle, and get their agreement to talk, talk, talk (initial drug testing), delay, delay, delay (A’s relocation), and do nothing, nothing, nothing (Rangers ownership mess, Dodgers ownership mess, Marlins ownership, period).

Bud has allowed Lauria to continue his crimes, unfettered. He allows some owners, to the detriment to the game, to neglect the aspect of winning. He is absent on the San Jose dispute. He’s intentionally stonewalling the implementation of expanded replay, where the technology can be utilized without disrupting the flow of the game. He allows inferior umpires to persist. And Buds greatest failure is how baseball has handled steroids (from when baseball turned a blind eye, to failure to bargaining for penalties with teeth).

The idiocy of the Baseball Network,Inter League Play(now poisoning standings and pitching rotations all season long) continued expansion of postseason into “Playoffs/October-November Madness”,thumb and head well up his ass during the abomination that was steroids….don’t let the door hit you in the ass,Bud……it could give you a concussion….